Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down. These were...
Month: April 2013
New Today: Ron Paul on His New Peace Institute!
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 27, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen to Ron Paul Institute Founder and CEO Ron Paul's newest comments on Podcast Nation today, speaking on the very important topic of Al-Qaeda and US foreign policy. Why is it the US fights Al-Qaeda in one country while supporting Al-Qaeda elsewhere? In the second...
What Jennifer is Whispering in Obama’s Ear
by Chris Rossini | Apr 25, 2013 | Neocon Watch
When looking at Obama’s foreign policy moves compared to what we would be seeing with a John McCain or Mitt Romney presidency, we see things could have been worse.That's not to say that Obama is a non-interventionist in any sense of the word. But it appears that his...
Tom Woods Exposes RPI Advisors’ Real ‘Faults’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 24, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Dr. Tom Woods pens a very well-worded retort to the recent neo-con attack on RPI here.
‘Political Groups In Washington Downplayed Chechen Threat’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 23, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Academic Board Member John Laughland is interviewed on RT about the recent Boston bombings. Dr. Laughland points out that political and ideological biases may well have led to downplaying the seriousness of Chechen radicalization -- and to turning a blind eye...
RPI Academic Board Member on Iran Sanctions
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Flynt Leverett: U.S. is Engaged in a Dirty War Against Iran By: Kourosh Ziabari If you regularly follow the headlines on the American and European radio stations, TV channels or newspapers, you come to believe that Iran’s nuclear program is the world’s most important,...
Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty
by Ron Paul | Apr 22, 2013 | The Liberty Report
This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the name of “safety.” Gun control continued to be the focus of the Senate, where an amendment expanding federal “background...
Scenes From the Ron Paul Institute Press Conference
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2013 | The Liberty Report
The front desk called called nervously as we closed in on a half hour before the press conference start time on April 17th. Two young men fully dressed in Ron Paul regalia, but unfortunately of the t-shirt and shorts variety, were desperate to get in to the press...
Color Revolution for Venezuela?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 17, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After an unexpectedly tight vote in Venezuela over the weekend, heir to Hugo Chavez’s legacy Nicolas Maduro squeaked by with 50.7 percent of the result. His opponent, US-favored Henrique Capriles Radonski lost by some 1.7 percent of the vote and, although he has not...
Washington’s Syria Policy in Free-Fall
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 17, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Washington is scrambling to apply a fig leaf to its program of covertly and overtly arming the armed rebels in Syria, trying to convince the increasingly skeptical that it can somehow thread the needle and ensure that sophisticated weapons and CIA training in Jordan...
Oh That Smell: CISPA Returns from the Dead
by RPI Staff | Apr 16, 2013 | Congress Alert
A new and much unimproved CISPA bill heads for the House Floor for a vote this week. The new measure strips what little privacy measures and makes it even more mandatory that the private company you trust with your business be forced by the government to spy on you....
The Coming Non-Intervention Revolution
by Ron Paul | Apr 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
As we see each new administration, regardless of claimed ideological or political differences, pursuing the same destructive policies abroad and trampling our civil liberties at home, we must now face the key issues of our time. The issues of war or peace, republic or...
Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 15, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule, and few things promote the thinking of “unapproved” thoughts like an education...
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